#hucardhuesday — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hucardhuesday, aggregated by home.social.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Afterburner II”. This is a 1990 port of #Sega’s classic 1987 “superscaler” arcade game, with conversion duties to the #PCEngine handled by #NEC Avenue. It’s a surprisingly competent port, playing better than some more powerful console versions.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “1943 Kai”. This is a 1991 vertically scrolling shoot-em-up developed & published by Naxat Soft. The game has two modes, a port of the original 1987 arcade, and Kai mode which has alternative levels & music.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Yokai Dochuki” also known as “Tales of the Monster Path”. This is a 1988 port of an arcade platform game from a year earlier, developed & published by #Namco. The player must avoid various monsters, ghosts & demons armed only with a yoyo.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Xevious: Fardraut Densetsu”. This is a 1990 port of the 1983 arcade shoot-em-up, developed & published by #Namco. The game features 2 modes: the original game, plus the Fardraut mode which adds new levels and enemies.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “W-Ring: The Double Rings”. This is a 1990 horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up developed and published by Naxat Soft. It’s a lesser known shooter for the #NEC #PCEngine & while it doesn’t do anything outstanding, it’s a decent game.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Victory Run”. This is a 1987 racing game based on the Paris-Dakar Rally, developed & published by #HudsonSoft. Uniquely, the player selects spare parts before the race to be used as parts degrade, adding an element of strategy.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Toilet Kids”. This is a 1992 vertically scrolling shoot-em-up developed and published by Media Rings. The whole game has a puerile and lavatorial sense of humour, seeing you combat flying toilets, flies hovering around turds & more.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Street Fighter II Dash Champion Edition”. This is a 1993 port of #Capcom’s incredibly famous 1992 1-on-1 fighting arcade game. Conversion duties were handled by #NEC Home Electronics Ltd. It’s a remarkably good port for the relatively humble #PCEngine.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “R-Type I”. This is a 1988 port of #Irem’s 1987 horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up, converted & published by #HudsonSoft. Despite the name, this is only the first 4 levels of the game, with later levels released as “R-Type II”.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Kyukyoku Tiger” AKA “Twin Cobra”. This is a 1989 port of #Toaplan’s 1987 vertically scrolling helicopter shoot-em-up arcade game, ported by A.I. Company & published by #Taito.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Daisenpuu” AKA “Twin Hawk”. This is a 1990 vertically scrolling shoot-em-up which is a port of a 1989 arcade game developed by #Toaplan. The conversion was handled by #NEC Avenue.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Adventure Island” for the #NEC #PCEngine. Confusingly, this is actually a port of Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap with slightly altered graphics and is known as “Dragon’s Curse” in the US.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Pro Yakyu World Stadium ‘91”. This is a 1991 baseball game developed & published by #Namco. It’s another entry in the series offering minor improvements over previous games while keeping the cute graphical style.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Power League IV”. This is a 1991 baseball simulation game developed and published by #HudsonSoft. It’s the fourth in the series and again offers minor improvements over the previous entries.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “PC Genjin 3” also known as “PC Kid 3” and, in the US, as “Bonk’s Big Adventure”. This 1993 game developed by Red & published by #HudsonSoft is the third & most advanced of the #PCEngine’s flagship platform series.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Momotarō Densetsu Turbo”. This is a 1990 game developed & published by #HudonSoft. It’s a top-down role playing game based on the Japanese legend of the Peach Boy.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf”. This 1989 golf game from Victor Musical Industries is licensed to the legendary player and features selected holes from multiple real-life golf courses.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Sadakichi Seven: Hideyoshi no Ogon”, also known as “Hideyoshi’s Gold”. This is a 1988 game developed by Sofix Corporation & published by #HudsonSoft. It’s a “Digital Comic” adventure game with heavy Japanese text.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Pachio-Kun Juban Shobu”. This is a 1992 game developed & published by Coconuts Japan. Part of a long running series of games on multiple platforms, this is a Pachinko simulator with light RPG elements.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Mahjong Gakuen Toma Soshiro Tojo”. This is a 1989 game developed & published by Face. One of a large number of Mahjong games for #NEC’s #PCEngine, this one has a story mode that plays similarly to strip poker, with pixelated nudity.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Summer Carnival ‘93 Nexzr Special”. This is a 1993 vertically scrolling shoot-em-up developed by Inter State & Kaneko for Naxat Soft. This is a cut down version of a full game for use in gaming tournaments.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Star Parodier”. This is a 1992 vertically scrolling shoot-em-up developed by Interstate/Kaneko for Hudson Soft. The game parodies the Star Soldier series in the same way as Konami’s Parodius does for Gradius.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “J League Greatest Eleven”. This is a 1993 football simulation game developed by Cream & published by Nihon Bussan under their Nichibutsu brand. The game features all the teams & players from the 1993 J League.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Bari Bari Densetsu”, also known as “Taito Bike Racing”. This is a 1989 motorcycle racing game developed & published by #Taito. It’s based on a manga series of the same name.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Appare! Gate Ball”. This is a 1988 game developed by Azuma & published by #HudsonSoft. Unusually this is a Croquet simulator played by 2 teams with the player choosing their side from a selection of offbeat characters.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Side Arms Special”. Surprisingly this 1989 CD-ROM2 based shoot-em-up is a bit of a downgrade from the #HuCard version as it features simpler graphics. It does however add an extra mode which plays slightly differently.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Altered Beast”. This is the CD-ROM2 based version of #Sega’s 1988 arcade beat-em-up, converted by #NEC Avenue to the #PCEngine in 1989. This is very slightly enhanced over the #HuCard version, but not as much as you might expect.
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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Crest of Wolf”. This is a 1993 Super CD-ROM2 game by #HudsonSoft & #Westone. It’s a belt scrolling beat-em-up, very much in the vein of Final Fight or Streets of Rage. It was released for #TurboGrafx in the US as “Riot Zone”.
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